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TIMOR MEETINGS

Red Weekly No. 147, 22 April 1976 · p. 11 of the scan · 621 words

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was in need of hospital treatment as a result of injuries received while The court ordered that he be transferred to hospital until the evening of 8 April, when the court again ordered that he be released. However, as Breatnach stepped out of the court he was rearrested and charged with the train robbery.

On the evening of Friday 9 April, Mick Barrett, a friend of one of those charged with the robbery, was arrested, barrett is a witness bu the fact that the charged man was nowhere near the scene of the crime. By arresting him and attempting to implicate him, it may reasonably be presumed that the police intend to destroy his credibility as a defAt the same time, the friend at whose house Barrett was arrested the friend's wife and 13-year old son were also arrested. None are FRETILIN the Front for National Liber ation in East Timor, has hit back hard against the Indonesian troops since their full-scale invasion last December. Latest news is that for the first time, fighting against the troops has started in Dili, the capital. An army convoy was am bushed. a tank destroved and a largt amount of weaponry and electronic equipment captured.

The 30,000 troops, the warships, napalm and chemical deronants ane planes which the Indonesian regime is using against the people of East Timor have not been able to crush the liberation movement. FRETILIN nas re-estan lished radio broadcasting and is now in control of 80 per cent of the country.

In Australia, support for FRETILIN is very strong. The ACTo (Austrariar TUC) has passed a motion condemning -WHATS ONL. 1 May, 1.5Upm g CRITIQUE SEMINAR series Mike Mckenn lecessity of Hegel. Tues 27 April, 1.30pm S-418, St Clements Building, London School c ANGOLA WORKSHOP Sat 8 Mav. 10.30-5.30 in Africa Centre 38 King St. London Wow. send bup for recistration and papers to. Angola solidarity Committee, c/o 30 Romilly Road, London N4.

GREATER MANCHESTER Troops Out Movemen The role of the Army in Ireland'. Tues 2 1973: Benefit performance by Teatro Por ular Chileno, a group of exiled actors and drama KED bOOKs comprenensive st or times now aval ble-Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, ande, for es to: Red Books, 97 Caledonian Road, London N.1. the invasion, and the waterside workers are blacking trade with Indonesia. Or 18 March international protests took place througnout Australla and curope including a picket on the Indonesian Embassy in London.

The British Campaign for an Inde pendent East Timor is holding a public meeting in London on Friday 23 April at 7.30pm at Friends Meeting House Euston Road. London N.1. There will be a slide-show on East Timor and a film on Indonesian prisoners, plus speak ers from BCIET and an MP. On both Friday and Saturday, 23/24 April there will be an exhibition and film-show beg inning at 10am showing in depth the situation in East Timor, the policies of FRETILIN and the nature of the Indon esian regime at Artists for Democracy. 143 Whitfield St, London W.1.

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